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• Spraygraphic Featured Artist: Propaganda

  
  Sprayblog — Authority: 528
  Spraygraphic Featured Artist: Propaganda Propaganda is a talented Photographer and Graphic Designer from Singapore. Her Creative Project Section is filled some really amazing photos and designs. Check out her profile .
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• 11/19/09: Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma | El Cerrito

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 491
  Join Laurabeth Grieneeks Nelson, docent with the Asian Art Museum, for a slide presentation on this unique collection of stunning 19th century artworks from Siam and Burma. Many of these beautiful art objects are on view for the first time and include gilded ritual vessels, mother-of-pearl inlaid furniture, colorful ...
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• Culture Clicks: Weekly Art News Roundup

  
  Artstoile — Authority: 121
  Degas Pastel is Highlight of a Tepid Christie’s Sale (NY Times)On the Block:  Traditional Offerings, Bargain Prices (NY Times)Van Gogh’s Personal Letters Debut Online in English (LA Times)New Street Signage Coming for Downtown LA Galleries (LA Times)Psychoanalyzing Twitter at the Rubin Museum of Art (WSJ)Asian ...
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• Culture Clicks: Weekly Art News Roundup

  
  Artstoile — Authority: 121
  Degas Pastel is Highlight of a Tepid Christie’s Sale (NY Times)On the Block:  Traditional Offerings, Bargain Prices (NY Times)Van Gogh’s Personal Letters Debut Online in English (LA Times)New Street Signage Coming for Downtown LA Galleries (LA Times)Psychoanalyzing Twitter at the Rubin Museum of Art (WSJ)Asian ...
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• Japanese artist Kiei Takano

  
  Sprayblog — Authority: 528
  Japanese artist Kiei Takano … Takano is a traditional Kano School painter but has developed his own artistic technique over time. His paintings are original and very personal…
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• Halloween aka Pho Weekend

  
  [Super Duper Fantastic] — Authority: 114
  I didn’t really have a decided costume for Halloween until about an hour before a party Friday night. It became a pre-Halloween costume because the following evening [Halloween proper], we went over to RV’s mom’s house and watched a late night baseball game instead of joining in the festivities in SF. I wore ...
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• Matcha: Thai River Festival at the Asian Art Museum a Huge Success

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 529
  Just look at what ten bones got you down at the Asian Art Museum ’s Matcha  last night – it was the Thai River Festival  2009. Lot’s of people upstairs… …to the see the dancers…. …but also downstairs…. …to make river offerings: That’s it for Matcha s for 2009, but ...
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• Thai River Festival is the Last Matcha of 2009 – See it at the Asian Art Museum Tomorrow

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 529
  Just look at what ten bones will get you down at the Asian Art Museum ’s Matcha  that’s coming up tomorrow, Thursday, October 29th, 2009 starting at 5:00 PM. Your Night at the Museum will include: Thai Music and Dance , Burmese puppet masters, Emerald Cities plus  tasty Burmese Tea Leaf Salad You ...
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• New auction houses with new strategies open in Singapore art market

  
  Art Radar Asia — Authority: 118
  ASIAN ART MARKET TRENDS Usually, to be a part of the bubbling Asian art market scene, buyers need to associate themselves with industry leaders Christie’s and Sotheby’s for lack of other options. In South East Asia, however, there’s a new way for collectors to discover their contemporary art. According to a ...
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• The Hyphenites Social Calendar: Loi Krathong, Get Dressed

  
  Hyphen Blog — Authority: 130
  Tuesday October 27th -- NYC South Asians in British Dub and Punk Join filmmaker and professor Vivek Bald as he presents a series of British punk and dub music archives from the late 1970s and early 1980s, which influenced his documentary Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music . Screening will include Balds ...
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• Crow Collection Gets Its Patio On

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 562
  Curious about the construction I’ve seen outside the Crow Collection of Asian art, on the corner of Flora and Harwood, I asked the museum’s director, Amy Hofland, what’s going on. Says Hofland: It’s called Snuff Bottle Court (because of the snuff bottle installation) and will have a wisteria arbor (SHADE!); ...
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• Doris Dukes Treasures at the Asian 1: Too Rich

  
  Civic Center — Authority: 464
  A new exhibit has opened for three months at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum called "Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma," which is a little misleading since there are no emeralds anywhere on display. It would be more honest to call the show "Doris Dukes Southeast Asian Swag," since the vast majority of ...
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• Doris Dukes Treasures at the Asian 2: Siam

  
  Civic Center — Authority: 464
  The Duke fortune was created soon after the Civil War by a dirt-poor North Carolina farmer named Washington Duke who started the American Tobacco Company, a company that morphed into the American Tobacco Trust which owned and controlled 90% of the tobacco products in the world at the turn of the century. This was ...
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• Doris Dukes Treasures at the Asian 3: Burma

  
  Civic Center — Authority: 464
  The 1940s for Doris Duke were packed with enough drama to fill a trashy television miniseries. In fact, a four-hour version of her biography was made in 1999 with Lauren Bacall as the elderly Doris and Richard Chamberlain as her sinister butler Bernard. Doris was simultaneously carrying on affairs with Duke Kahanamoku ...
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• "Au pays du Dragon : arts sacrés du Bhoutan" @ Musée Guimet, Paris

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 150
  La protectrice du Dharma Dorje Yudrönma , XIXe siècle. Encre et couleurs minérales sur coton. H. 152 cm ; L. 81 cm. Gönpa de Phajoding, Thimphu. Crédit photographique : © Shuzo Uemoto Cette exposition réunit pour la première fois une centaine d’œuvres bouddhiques prêtées par divers temples et ...
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• New Today at the Asian Art Museum – Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 529
  San Francisco’s highly-rated Asian Art Museum launched a new special exhibit today – it’s called Emerald Cities : Arts of Siam & Burma . See? Read all about this great show from Candace Jackson ,  Nancy Ewart , Carol Canter , and  Janos Gereben . ( Civic Center Mike ? ...
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• Now available: South Asian and Cuban art and architecture from Alka Patel

  
  ARTstor Blog — Authority: 112
  Approximately 7,200 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture from Alka Patel are now available in the Digital Library. This is the first batch of field photography images from Patel, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, and includes art and architecture in ...
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• Anatomy of Japanese Folk Monster

  
  Sprayblog — Authority: 528
  Yōkai Daizukai, an illustrated guide to yōkai authored by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, features a collection of cutaway diagrams showing the anatomy of 85 traditional monsters from Japanese folklore (which also appear in Mizuki’s GeGeGe no Kitarō anime/manga). Here are a few illustrations from the book. via ...
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• New collection agreement: Japanese art, architecture, and rituals photographed by David Boggett

  
  ARTstor Blog — Authority: 112
  ARTstor is partnering with Smith College to share approximately 500 images of Japanese art, architecture, and festivals created by David Boggett in the Digital Library. David Boggett is a Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities at Kyoto Seika University, where he has taught Japanese and Asian history of over 30 ...
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• Falnama’s Book of Omens: The Future Will Be Bright and Sunny

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 428
  The sun is regarded as an auspicious sign, but this augury warns the seeker, "know friend from foe, and do not feel secure from the plots of a sallow-faced, short man with a defect on his head or eye." Courtesy of topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.  ...
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